Ok so... I've had my third MGMAT class. One thing I want to say about the class is that there is a TTTOONNN of readings and homework. For the last class I actually did the wrong Quant Guide. Each class we have to have an entire Quant guide completed. This week it was supposed to be Equations, Inequalities, and VIC's. I accidentally did Fractions, Decimals, and Percents which isn't due for another 3 weeks!! Oh well... luckily I understand equations and VICs, so I didn't have a problem understanding during class. I did tell myself that I would go through the guide I missed this weekend... and I did!
If I wanted to stay busy for 5 hours a day for three months, I definitely could. I still put in about 2-3 hours/night. Today I actually woke up at 10:30 and was studying by 12. Fell asleep studying from 4-5:30 then studied from about 6-8. Had to watch the olympics because Apolo Ohno was racing... so I did some CR (Critical Reasoning) chapters while watching the olympics.... Now that I think about it.. maybe THAT'S why I don't fully understand CR Diagramming! Actually no, I just don't like it... but I will give it a chance.
Anyway, after some speed skating and skiing, I decided to read some chapters in the SC (Sentence correction guide). I'm beginning to like sentence correction - FINALLY... but my Quant skills are slipping I think. That'll come back to me with repetition.
I went to the John Jay bookstore (i live down the street from it) to buy some notebooks. I want to do the OG problems tomorrow but I want to keep them separate. I bought two notebooks... a 5 subject notebook and 1 subject notebook... $17.98!!!! WTF?!?! Now I remember trapper keepers being about $6 when I was in kindergarten... but when I was in HS notebooks were like $3.99 or something like that... I gagged when i saw the price, but I had no other option!
Tomorrow I plan on doing all of the OG questions that we are supposed to have completed up until this point. I was thinking about saving the OG problems until after the class, because that's what a lot of people are doing, but I figured... if this is what's recommended... who am I to tell people who have scored in the 99th % - no I don't think your strategy works for me! Pssshhh..
Ok lemme see what else is going on? Oh so on Friday I had a half day at work. Anytime we have a day off we get the former previous day as a half day. Since I don't have work on Presidents Day I had off on Friday. I met up with someone I met at an NYU marketing event/conference back in October. Most of the people I met that day were applying for 2010 and I'm applying for 2011, so I guess I was more laid back in that I wasn't trying to suck up to the admissions committee.
In any event... So I met up with him at Redemption on 52nd & 2nd avenue at 4:15... it was good to catch up with him... we had been emailing back and forth ever since we met, but he had to be left alone because he was applying R2 (round 2) to Wharton, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and UVA Darden. Since he's done with the applications we decided it was a good time to meet up. I'll be MIA to my friends come March because that's gonna be crunch time for me.
He too is in digital marketing for a national retailer so aside from talking about B-school stuff and GMAT stuff we were also able to compare notes on our jobs. He has an interview at Wharton & Darden next week! I wish him the best of luck!!! So yeah... I got there at 4:15 and we left at 7 and only had 4 beers each - I had Stella (yum)... but I was definitely feeling the alcohol after 3 hours.
I also got an update from a kid that I went to High School with who also applied to schools this year. He applied to Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, MIT Sloan, and Dartmouth. He got rejected from the big three (Stanford, Harvard, Wharton), but was accepted to Sloan and is waiting to hear back from Dartmouth. I'm sure he'll get into Dartmouth because his profile is really good and he went to Dartmouth for undergrad. I do think that he'll choose MIT over Dartmouth though...
So the big news this week is that I'M GOING TO YALE!!! I have no idea what I'm going to wear though... suit with a shirt? do i wear a tie? cufflinks? how about jsut a sweater underneath? i'm going on a Campus Tour... Sit in on 2 classes... and then there's an Admissions q&a... i gotta remember to bring my notebook. and ask the question - if you had to describe 3 things adjectives that describe Yale, what would they be?
I will upload all my pictures to the blog when I get back home... actually right now I should be researching train schedules and what not! yeah lemme go do that ahaha!
Here are the standings from the contest... there are 9 days left... let's see where I end up!
Until tomorrow! xoxo
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